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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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France
Jean de La Bruyere
Individual
Regeneration
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Society
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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest this is less easy for him who is engaged it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
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If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
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He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
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Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?
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All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
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The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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